Lead Business Analyst
CurrentI streamline the development process for an advanced analytics initiative by collaborating with business and technology stakeholders, leveraging my business analyst mindset. Ensuring project transparency and stakeholder alignment, I facilitate scrum ceremonies and deliver successful sprint end demos at the program level. Utilizing my strong data analysis skills, I identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and translate business needs into actionable user stories for the development team. Recognized and commended by important clients for contributions that exceeded expectations. Assumed the additional responsibilities of scrum master resulting from staff transitions, facilitating sprint planning, estimation sessions, and daily standup meetings to unblock Dev/QA teams. Achieved a 50% decrease in delay in finalizing Program Increment (PI) goals and dependencies, enabling a shared vision and direction among Agile teams, including stakeholders, project owners, and project teams. Minimized delays to release timeline by 25% by classifying data modeling and data enrichment issues. Elevated team competency by spearheading knowledge sharing initiative on Power BI fundamentals, resulting in a 30% increase in the quality of testing deliverables Mitigated 80% of key business risks through proactive identification and communication, fostering a culture of proactive risk management.